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[wierd]

I seem to be only person who plays this game ethically 

Of course, I get to watch my dwarfs all die horribly when I fail and I fail often.

You fail because you can't sacrifice the few for the good of the many.

The weak and stupid are not wanted. They are undesirable and must be destroyed for the good of a master dwarven race.

Bonus points if blatant hipocrisy runs rampant: the supreme ruler is not in fact, a pureblooded dwarf, his sister is batshit crazy but is not immediately euthanized, and the standard of excellence is a moving goalpost.

Throw in a mass sterilization program, and nationalist hysteria, and you have yourself a winner!

(Godwin for the win!)

[Urist McGyver]

Every Dwarf Fortress Fort is a concentration camp, only without the nazis.

[Loud Whispers]

Every Dwarf Fortress Fort is a concentration camp, only without the nazis.

Woah, Godwin's law :p

Ok, but nah, if you find a use for every Dwarf you have no need to senselessly send them to their deaths.

Still, if you're hesitating to, just remember that each one of those Dwarfs would let the entire fort die if it meant they weren't thirsty.

Then pull the lever.

[King DZA]

I seem to be only person who plays this game ethically 

Of course, I get to watch my dwarfs all die horribly when I fail and I fail often.

Nonsense. All of my fortresses are overseen with unquestionable care and benevolence.

Sure I could see them all as nothing but pixels and programs, but that makes for some pretty shit stories and boring gameplay. Imagining their backround, personality, preferences, relationships and watching how they grow and learn in the little virtual environment around them, that's how truly awe-inspiring tales are made.

[Wannazzaki]

I'm ethical! If you don't counter danger room abortions, large mammal/migrant drops into dining rooms and modding my dorfs so eating sapients is acceptable and then the elves cease to get any diplomats back...mmm diplomat soap.

[Elf Lover]

Every Dwarf Fortress Fort is a concentration camp, only without the nazis.

...Sigged.

[wierd]

No, the nazis come every spring.... why do you think everyone hates their tall, blue eyed, blonde haired capricious asses?

Its kharma I tell you!

[Urist McGyver]

Just look at the similarities!
When we don't like a dwarf, we drown him.

When we think there MAY be a possibility of doing something totally unbelieavable, we don't hesitate in sacrificing a bunch of dorfs to achieve it (or prove it's not possible still not reachable)

We exterminate EVERYONE who is not a dwarf. Those who are not exterminated live only for their mild usefullness as flux providers or whatever.

I'm waiting for the day when a megaproject will consist of making a bunch of Tiger tanks with fortifications and catapults for cannons and reconstruction for the tracks.

[Snail Boy]

I guess it was only a matter of time before a DF Auschwitz made its way onto the forums. What do you do? Gas them with miasma until they go berserk?

There was a thread a while back about dwarven gas chambers. The boiling point of zinc is lower than magma, resulting in a zinc cloud that quickly killed dwarves. You put a bunch of zinc crafts under a floor of grates and pump magma onto it for a death chamber.

[ASCIt]

You could always just stick with the old fallback - lock your important dwarves inside and let the useless ones starve/provide seige fodder.

[Muttonhawk]

My laziness is my dwarves' salvation. I can never be bothered to create death chambers.

And if you factor in the meaning of !!FUN!!, DF is all about the more the merrier.